Thanks Bumble for taking the time to write your new book. :•)
It was fun and quite interesting.
I await your trip to the states. They would never be the same. Love, Patty

Bah humbug. Its in print, only believe about 1/2 of it. (hehehehehe) M&M

<Bumle, Bumble (in Rudolph) is an 'abominable snowman' so dubbed by an indecisive prospector who I suspect couldn't pronounce 'abominable'. :> (still reading ;)

Who was the Welsh vocalist, if you don't mind my asking? And who is your 'favorite guitarist of all time'? (You obviously avoid name-dropping, too. ;)

I'm sorry to say, you're not the world's biggest hoarder, I am. On the bright side, though, you seem like you might come in a close second. :) (Bet my key collection is bigger than yours ;) Do you happen to have an extra 1926 D28 Herringbone you could spare?

On the whole a very interesting interview with a very interesting (and secretive) person. :) Good job!

I just tested it - created a tournament for signups to end 6:00 on the 15th, and the page loaded and showed 22:00 on the 14th. So (considering i'm GMT -6, and i would assume Czech time is GMT +2), i assume the time entered is Czech time, and it is converted to local time of the user when the page loads.

interesting and entertaining! Tanks for your time,bumble...and thanks harley,for your hard work;)
Fencr...I think bumble deserves a dollar a question! ;)

Shoulda got the money up front.

excellent interview, bumble, told you, you would be very entertaining

for the feedbakc down below on whether it is MY time or Czech time that tourneys start.....Well I can tell you ...it is MY time :) now if someone told me that...im sorry i missed it....:)

AW, thanks for your comments, everyone!
Part two (of fifteen) will be published in 'Wombats Weekly' available from some good newsagents - and all bad ones.

Don't forget to get your questions for harley in to noholdsbarred as soon as possible. You owe it to her - she's had it too easy for too long. Put her on the spot - make her stew. You know she deserves it! (only joking, harleyfluff!)
Now to get my questions in. *thinks...how many 'e's in negligee?*

Has the system been arranged such that if one is on a member's enemy list it is impossible to put that member on one's friends list?

Thats right, ughaibu.

Thanks. How about if they are already on the friends list? Is it impossible for them to put one on their enemy list? or can they thus remove themselves from the friends list?

If you put someone on enemies that is on your friends list, they will disappear.
And if you are on their friends list, and you put them on enemies, you disappear off their friends list.

But, if someone places you on their enemies list, its possible for you to place them on your enemies list, so they cannot contact you.

Thanks.

Did that make sense? I just re-read it and it sounded complicated!

It was fine. Sorry, next tiresome question: can a person send a message by subject line only or do we need something in the message box?

I've never tried, I'll send you a message with subject line only, see if you get it :o)

nope no can do in here.. I just tried it

You're right Rose! It threw me back to 'write new message'!

I got write another but it didn't say if the first went or not(?)

If you didn't get a blank message from me, ughaibu, I don't think they went. It would have said 'message sent' anyway, I'm sure.

I got one one time that only had a . in the message and the rest was in the subject line.

how is it that pawns can play in more than one tournament ? when they are still in other tournaments to goto another round ect ? . i have noticed this on a few occasions . if they can do this they dont have a need to upgrade

It can only be done Jason if they ask Fencer to remove them from a tournament that they have already been knocked out of (e.g. There is no chance they will go any further), even if that tournament is still running.
Then they can sign for another tournament.

no madmokey , i have seen differnt , one player is still waiting for another round to start and have just started another tourney . , im mainly letting fencer know that his programme might have a bug (ie)letting pwns sign up for more than one tournament

Which tournament is it?

So is what you mean is that the same pawn is through to the next round in tourny 'A' for example, and has been allowed to sign new tourny 'B' ?
It never used to be possible, as you say it may be a new bug (unless Fencer has changed pawn tourny rules).

I am collating the questions today.... This is your last chance...
I have some 40 odd questions already ... some are variations on a theme and will be amalgamated.
Without specific instructions to the contrary questioners will retain anonymity....

I could think of a couple of examples of how pawns can get into multiply tournaments.

1) They were a knight/rook whos membership has expired, but are still playing in other games.

2) During the "new year bug" when games were timed out, a pawn may have had their games gone, signed up for another tournament, and then got their old games back.

3) A known game bug which I have reported to Fencer at one time of how a pawn could enter multiply tournaments, which when I last checked was not "fixed" yet.

Another great read......thanks Harley & Bumble :o)

yes its number 3 bbw its on the agenda to be fixed

When Fencer bumps a defeated pawn from one tourney so they can join another, it doesn't affect their performance record in the one in which they were bumped, does it?

Nope, their bkr etc will remain as it was :o)

*whew* :)

while trying to acces BK this is what i get on the main page...


BrainKing.info (last updated on 17th September 2003)
Yesterday's most active player: MsDelete (524 moves) (more ...)
table width=100% cellpadding=0 cellsp

there was absolutely nothing else on there...did you get my email Filip???

Yes, that happened to me as well for a while - a page would partly load, it would show me the beginning of the html tag and fail to load the rest of the page. Eventually i started getting "The page cannot be displayed" messages, at which point i gave up. It seems to be doing better now, however!

according to my ":tournaments running" list i have a five in line and a battleboats STILL running.....these were pre crash tournaments how do i close them down...it has been so long....or what do i have to do to get rid of them :) thanks

Are there still ongoing games in these tournaments, Bernice? If there are than it will show as being a running tournament until a winner is declared.

A few of the pawns have have games with have been asking about when they can post again. Any time frame on that?

When the new version of BrainKing is done and released.

Fencer - Don't mean to "bug" you about it, but about how close is the new version of BrainKing?

The only thing I worry about not letting pawn post is if they do have a problem, they will have no place to go and ask (other then private message - which they may not know to use).

I have checked the 2 tournaments and this is the result......

in the 5 in Line Zetes and Antje have an outstanding game....if they could finish that the 5 in line would be over.

as for the battleboats....Molly v Whikki, and Whikki v goodfoods is still outstanding...again if those could be finished ....I play with Molly every day so I cannot understand it being outstanding...all these games hould have well and truly timed out by now....perhaps Fencer could look into it.

The tourneys are called...Five up, five down, five across.......and Bernice's best battleboats bruhaha.....
thanks so much :)

Hi Bernice :o)

I had a look at the tourney games and they've all made a move today. It seems they are just moving more slowly than the other players. It happens :o) As long as they move in the time allowed they won't time out, and the tournament will stay as 'running'. It shouldn't be long before they're done, but there doesn't seem to be any problem with the tourney that I can see.

BBW: I don't want to make wrong predictions. Several weeks.
LongJohn: Yes, you must wait for the next day. Or ask me to find it in the database ;-)

I thought along the same line as LongJohn a while ago, i think i mentioned it on the Feature Request board. If your number of moves is a running total stored in the database (or even one subtracted from the other), that it could be displayed somwhere, maybe beside your number of moves from the previous day. That way you could see how many moves everyone way making during the day, and you know the sort of competitions people have round here LOL
Who can make the most LOL ? :o)

I'd be interedsted to know the total number of moves I had made ... not all the time, just out of interest :)

You can find you total for the day Whisperz at the top of the main page, where it says:
Yesterday's most active player: Steve R (779 moves) (more ...)
If you click on the more link is will show you where you are in the list & how many you have made.

MM, I had noticed that number and I am aware of where the (more ...) leads, but what I meant was my TOTAL moves ... this is, from when I first logged on :)

Sorry Whisperz, i thought that is what you meant. It would be interesting to know how many moves we have made since we joined though.